The more I work with senior teams and wider systems the more it becomes apparent that the quality of behaviours and relationships are linked not just to the highest things of shared purpose but just as much to some of the basics of self-organisation and personal disciplines.

As we pick up the thread of work after the Christmas and New Year break most of us will have opened our electronic calendars and looked at the crowded months ahead. I am constantly hearing clients struggling to find space in their diaries months ahead and a consistent refrain of 'I will work on that during the weekend'

The way we design physical working space has an enormous impact on the way we engage, behave and think. Imagination, creativity and energy can be enhanced by well designed, simple space. And yet rarely a day goes by when I do not walk into a meeting room or potential workshop space that is the antithesis of all these things - all I see is a 'Black Hole' for creativity and energy.

So a couple of days ago we found out that patients at a NHS HIV clinic in Dean Street London had details of their attendance widely broadcast because someone used cc rather than bcc in an email to patients. So here is my office digital maturity check list...

Oh how I felt superior and laughed when, as an early email adopter (compuserve - remember that?), I was told that a colleague was getting his emails printed out and brought to him in a file twice a day. What a dinosaur! How wrong I was…bloody email!

As I work with the NHS I am increasingly convinced that it is not money that is the critical scarce resource - it is time. The time to think differently about the future, the time to experiment with doing things differently, the time simply to stop and think

Time is the single most precious resource that we have - not money. And yet I increasingly observe that it is the resource that at work and especially in a hard pressed public sector that is most poorly managed.